How to Use identity card in a Sentence

identity card

noun
  • One day, their play led her to a box in her father’s study that contained an identity card.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Some bodies still had faces; others had identity cards in their pockets.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • When the officers refused to do so, the gunman threw out his identity card.
    — Lorne Cook and Raf Casert, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
  • When the officers refused to do so, the gunman threw out his identity card.
    — Time, 31 May 2018
  • Every citizen, at the age of five, is given an identity card.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Our identity cards were now marked with a large J, identifying us at a quick glance as Jews.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Aadhar identity card system are all part of the modern travel equation.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The girl's government services identity card was found in a pavilion near the coast last Wednesday night.
    — Steven Jiang, CNN, 15 July 2019
  • This identity card seemed to me to be a thank you from the mayor to my father for having trusted him when he had been sidelined by Vichy.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Belgium is meeting a sharp increase in demand with packs of pills free for anyone with a Belgian identity card.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2022
  • New identity cards forced people to choose an ethnicity, though many Ethiopians are of mixed heritage.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The embroidery became more homogenized and less of an identity card.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Once, after a simple identity card check went awry, he and his friends were driven out to a nearby forest in a squad car, dropped in the woods, and told to find their way home.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Independent identity cards are required, as is a residence in the same region as the job being offered.
    — Emily Wang, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The maulana of the mosque found the identity card of both the men from the pockets of their clothes after which their families were contacted, Wajid said.
    — Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In that meeting, the union hopes to clear up the issues surrounding the appointment letters, identity cards and other demands.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The company will spend up to a million dollars (which seems to be standard) on legal fees, notary fees, replacement identity cards, and the like.
    — PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
  • In February, the top court ruled that surgery was not necessary for transgender people to change their gender on their identity cards.
    — Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Despite being a transgender woman, legally Anna must comply with what is written on her identity card, which has a male name.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • He was cited for damage to property and identity card violation after he was found with two fake IDs.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
  • In China, citizens age 16 and up apply for a resident identity card.
    — Riddhima Dave, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The security guards at the gates checked the identity cards of the returning protesters, entering the campus.
    — Mohd Nazeef Khan, Quartz India, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The race of every citizen and permanent resident over the age of 15 is printed on the front of their national identity card.
    — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • As collateral, they were required to give the agency their school diplomas and identity cards, which were eventually to be returned to the men’s families.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Key Things to Know Belgium is meeting a sharp increase in demand with packs of pills free for anyone with a Belgian identity card.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The courier signed up to work for Uber Eats in 2019, using someone else’s Italian identity card.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Nearly four decades ago, Mo Fengyue leaned over the boat carrying her to China and dumped her Vietnamese identity cards into the river.
    — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • This year’s ads must meet new requirements that limit how plans, brokers, and other third parties can use the Medicare logo and images of the Medicare identity card.
    — Deb Gordon, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The verdict is expected to shape the outcome of a pending lawsuit filed in 2012 over the validity and scope of the identity card system, the largest in the world.
    — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
  • At the Red Spot, voters presented the special identity card used to receive the food boxes and other services and gave their names to workers who were keeping lists of those who had voted.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2018

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